Leonardo Blair
Senior Reporter
Leonardo Blair is an award-winning investigative reporter and feature writer whose career spanned secular media in the Caribbean and New York City prior to joining The Christian Post in 2013. His early work with CP focusing on crime and Christian society quickly attracted international attention when he exposed a campaign by Creflo Dollar Ministries in 2015 to raise money from supporters to purchase a $65 million luxury jet. He continues to report extensively on church crimes, spiritual abuse, mental health, the black church and major events impacting Christian culture.
He is a 2007 alumnus of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he was an inaugural member of the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism. He lives with his wife and two sons in New York City.
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AME Church reaches settlement to restore missing retirement funds
Some 5,000 employees and retirees of the African Methodist Episcopal Church who filed a class-action lawsuit against the denomination in 2022 after a former church executive allegedly squandered some $90 million of their retirement savings on “foolish" and risky investments, have reached a settlement that will begin restoring some of the lost money.
Chick-fil-A to join Netflix, Amazon, Hulu in streaming market
After topping America’s fast-food market for nearly a decade while remaining closed on Sundays, Chick-fil-A, the Christian-owned fast-food chain known for its signature chicken sandwich, is expected to join the crowded video streaming market this year alongside familiar brands like Netflix, Amazon and Hulu.
Megachurch Pastor Apollo Quiboloy in standoff with Philippines police over alleged child-sex trafficking
Former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte criticized leaders of the Philippine National Police Monday after some 2,000 officers raided the 74-acre compound of fugitive televangelist and Kingdom of Jesus Christ leader Apollo Quiboloy in a bid to arrest him on charges of child abuse and human trafficking, which he and his followers have denied.
Brian, Bobbie Houston say new ministry Jesus Followers in ‘desperate’ need of production studio
Hillsong Church founders Brian and Bobbie Houston made good on an earlier announcement that they would make a comeback in 2024, unveiling their new Jesus Followers online ministry, which they say is now in "desperate" need of a television production studio.
Founding pastors resign from Cross Timbers Church after Josiah Anthony scandal
Three weeks after the resignation of Cross Timbers Church Lead Pastor Josiah Anthony in Argyle, Texas, over sexual messaging with women and other inappropriate behavior that was followed by the resignation of Executive Pastor Byron Copeland, the church’s founding pastors Brian Hackney and his wife, Jamie, have also resigned.
Gateway Church Executive Pastor Kemtal Glasgow fired for ‘moral issue’ elders won’t disclose
Kemtal Glasgow, Gateway Church’s executive pastor who provided leadership and oversight to all of the megachurch’s campuses and gathering locations, has been fired due to a “moral issue,” the Southlake, Texas-based church announced Wednesday.
Father charged after 2-year-old left in car almost died as he attended funeral at church
A father who left his three children, including a newborn and two toddlers, inside his car alone as he attended a funeral at a Baptist church in Charlotte, North Carolina, has been charged with child abuse causing serious injuries and two other misdemeanors after one of the children passed out while he was away.
NYC grants Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine $1.5M
The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine in Manhattan has been awarded a $1.5 million grant by New York City to renovate a historic building on the church's 11-acre campus called Synod Hall to create a larger community center to help people in need.
Mercy Culture Church Pastor Landon Schott: ‘You’re not a Christian if you vote for a Democrat’
Landon Schott, senior lead pastor of the multi-campus Mercy Culture Church in the Dallas-Fort Worth area of Texas doubled down Tuesday on morning on a controversial declaration he made on Monday that Americans who vote for Democrats aren’t Christian.
Gateway Church faces new lawsuit from woman who alleges she was abused at 13
Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, is facing a new lawsuit from a woman who alleges she was groomed and sexually abused at the age of 13 by an older participant in a youth group hosted by the church at King's University beginning in 2016.
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